Cycling holidays ·
Travels with a Brompton
At about the time I was engaged on a series of long bike rides through France I met a man at a drinks party who had…
Cycling holidays ·
An Everest in West Oxfordshire
It is a not unusual occurrence, while I toil up Uffington’s White Horse Hill on what I refer to as my daily mortification, for me to…
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Up the Downs
My base camp at the foot of the Lambourn Downs (north side) is well placed for bike rides up to the Ridgeway – short bursts of…
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Tour de Bretagne
Sorry, I’ve moved this post to another page: see Brittany Tour
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To the source of the Dovey
A multi-activity, twin river circuit of the Mawddach and the Dovey (Dyfi) from Machynlleth, via Barmouth, Dolgellau and Dinas Mawddwy. This circuit kept Peter McG, Hatty…
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a reader writes
A reader – yes! – “just wondered if you might be able to offer some advice.” Well, I might. I enjoy displacement activity and responding to…
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In the Valley of the Kings
The English-language edition of the guide to the Loire à Vélo cycling trail reached me recently. I opened it with interest, having been surprised, when we…
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More on golf and cycling
Serendipity? An idle moment in Wantage, and upon what should I chance but Darwin On The Green, keenly – I am tempted to say insultingly –…
Austria ·
e-bikes: why not?
Like many other self-regarding cyclists, I noted the arrival of the battery power assisted e-bike with a mild and detached interest similar to that with which…
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Golf and cycling
In idle moments I have often googled golf and bicycle (or cycling). Almost nothing comes up, apart from a virtual debate about whether cycling is the…
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Lithuania by bike
To Lithuania, with cycling and walking tour operator The Carter Company. The trip started at the capital Vilnius, followed by a 300km bus ride across the…
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The only way is ethics
Waiting for the article to appear is a difficult time, especially when you have gone to bed with a publication for the first time, as was…
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To Italy by bike mostly with Eric Newby
Made my annual visit to the Dyfi Valley Bookshop in Machynlleth in case any of the 100-odd novels written by my great aunt Berta have fetched…
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La Croix-Fry: honeymoon sweet
Any minute now, the Tour de France cyclists will be toiling over the Col de la Croix-Fry and passing the world’s most stereotypically delightful Alpine chalet-hotel,…
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Alpe d’Huez: la montée mythique
So … just a short stage today for our cyclist heroes: a mere 168km to Alpe d’Huez finishing with 30km of ascent in two bits, totalling…
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Embrun Solaire
@rosiesimpson writes rather a brilliant blog in the form – for the moment at least – of a wine guide to the Tour de France. I…
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Crocophile years
As any fule kno, our world divides into two kinds of people: crocophiles and crocophobes. It is not a division down the middle, because the angry…
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Watching the Tour de France, or not
“A big picnic, with a cycling race attached,” is how Nadia of @foothillsfrance describes the Tour de France, from the spectator’s point of view. In July…
Corsica ·
Ferayola – a victory for the thin red line
Auberge Ferayola, Argentella, Corsica 00 33 4 95652525 www.ferayola.com I’ve moved this post to the hotel archive page
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Notre Dame des Cyclistes
On the day of the mother of battles at Twickenham, a delightful contribution to Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent about Notre Dame du Rugby, a…